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Visit for a week, or, Hints on the improvement of time. : Containing, original tales, entertaining stories, interesting anecdotes, and sketches from natural and moral history. : To which is added, a poetical appendix, designed for the amusement of youth. : [Four lines from Voltaire] : Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.

Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 30966
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Format:
Microformat
Author/Creator:
Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816.
Contributor:
Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30966.
Language:
English
Genre:
Juvenile literature -- 1796.
Poems -- 1796.
Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 275 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
4x6 in.
monochrome
service copy
negative
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia: : Printed by Ormrod and Conrad, no. 41, Chesnut-Street., 1796.
Notes:
Attributed to Lucy Peacock in the Dictionary of national biography.
Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara.
Error in paging: p. 253 misnumbered 254.
"Books published by J. Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut-Street."--p. [276].
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30966).
Cited in:
Evans 30966
Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 979.1
OCLC:
55835231

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